Shannon Vaught

Shannon Vaught is an oil painter whose focus is representational realism, primarily portraiture and narrative figure paintings. She comes from a classical background, earning her BFA in Drawing + Painting from the Laguna College of Art + Design in 2019. However, her current work is classical only in the traditional technique. She mainly paints in the Alla Prima approach - meaning wet into wet or all at once. This contributes to a very impressionistic, loose and direct painting style.

Shannon is currently exploring a body of work that examines the human condition, explicitly themes surrounding transience and duality. Her work has been exhibited locally and nationally.